Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-02-02
G0THAM'S SHOP WINDOWS
SPRING FABRICS ALREADY Be
GINNING TO APPEAR.

Ihe Doll of ths Present Contrasted
with That of the Pasta Cool Drama
in Teuemsnt-The Two Female
school Commissioners Tiny Toilers
OF the THpements
NEW YORK, Jan. 29.-The season for
tne display OF cotton dress goods is al :
Vsnclng three PAGES backward year by
year with unfailing regularity. The din
ner hour of civilized humanity, so they
say, grows two seconds later daily; the
procession or sateens and ginghams is
equally regular and far more rapid. About
ore week earlier every winter | am learn-
ing to look for the blossomlng out of the
dry goods counters with their wealth OF
summer fabrics, so out of keeping with
ne frost on the window panes and the
nlpplng blasts from every opened door.
Inc spring openings have worked
1helr way from March into
February, and now back into jan
uary. There is no reason indeed why
they should not continue their crablike
progress into December and figure among
the holiday offerings, for, if the self-elect-
ed arbiters of fashion who are now Begin
alng 10 weigh and consider, to pronounce
IN favor OF this and imperiously REJECT
mat did but understand the situation.
what feminine humanity shall wear the
coming summer was settled year ago,
and the true fashion makers are concern
ing themselves just at present not with
1851, but with 1883. Samples my dear
madam, of the SUITS IN which YOU will
play tennis, or lounge on the MOTEL piaz.
Eas. or walk by the seaside next midsum-
mer were submitted to the New York dry
GOODS firms twelve months ago. Patterns
ior the season that follows it are just ar
irving in New York harbor from
their voyage across seas, and
orders for them will be placed within a
fortnight. The wearables for a summer
that will not shine tor eighteen months to
come are settled before you have had
sight OF the material from which you
must make choice for tn coming cam.
palgn at Newport II Saratoga. These
old new goods which are Just now being
spread before US show little that is new
IN sateens, the only marked tendency in
that line of goods being passion for solid
colors. In ginGhams there are two new
tlnts, heliotrOpe in it's different shades.
not before attempted in wash fabrics, and
primrose, which is variation of straw
color. Seersuckers have sunk into obliv-
ION, but multitude OF fancy lace weaves
more than I'LL their places. Pinks and
blues are in the ascendant, and large un-
graceful plaids will not be wanting.
TIE DOLL BABY OF THE PERIOD.
The dingy rag dolly that the nom
aesthetic baby OF the olden time dangled
lovingly byone heel, mercifully oblivious
10 eccentric splasnes that stood for ewes,
and TO linked zigzags that marked out two
rows OF cannibalistl3 teeth, bears scant |
resemblance TO the poupe de luxe nursed
by the little New York damsel of the |
present day. looked over the latest i'm |
portations yesterday just being lifted |
from the immense packing box IN which |
they had made the voyage from Paris. the |
nome of the dollmaRers, to America. the |
home OF the doll breakers. There was the
bebe Juneau in all her glory,
Gotten up as a tobogganist. she wore
her toque and blanket gown with ali the
ease of the Montreal maiden; in evening
silk and tlnseled tulle, with low corsage
ana dangling tan, she waited for the waltz
music to begin; staggering beneath a
church-steeple bonnet, she was equipped
for the opera; in long sealskin cloak and
Rembrandt hat she might have stepped
upon the promenade. Rings shone on
her fingers and jewels glittered in her
ears. Her gloves were exquisite: her
boots made by the court shoemaker.
There was not whim OF the reigning
mode that she had not seized upon.
Great Is the Juneau doll. Even as
an infant in the cradle, she appreciated
the conditions of modern civilization, and
held out her arms to her new mother with
bottle at her side, its nipple
thrust within her opened mouth. The
modern doll can move her head, her feet,
her hands; she has metal spinal cord
and elastic bands tor nerves. The doll
baby grows TO large size, as well de-
veloped as girl OF 3, and the child is not
ner only friend and patroness. Misses Of
Is and 20 and even young married women.
30 the importer told me, buy the big ones
for their own delectatiOn. and exercise
their motherly instincts dressing and
tending Them.
TENEMENT HOUSE DRAMA.
A drama OF coal was enacted before
my eyes the other day in front Of a New
York tenement house. The scarcity en-
gendered by the recent strike had made
the black diamonds sight to stare at in
the haunLs OF the poor, and there they Law.
a third or half a ton of them, lust
dumped on the broken flags Of the side
walk. Stared at they were. The mer-
curry was well on it's way down to zero.
but every window in the towering six
story block was flung wide open, and
Dareheaded women with babies in their
arms and tow heads-uncombed, most of
behind, discussed |
he wonderful spectacle with
rue Cherry street eloquence. |
Mrs. McNOoney, us got load Of coal.r
the nDDeF stories called down IN I no lovuar